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Real Estate Billboard

Johnny Z — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:14:27 +0000

I learned recently that a photo I had taken while on a real estate photo shoot has been made into a billboard. The project was for some beautiful watertfront property in North Carolina. Some of the units are still for sale at a steep discount so if your interested make sure to check out their website.

Luxury Real Estate

Johnny Z — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:33:06 +0000

I started a post several weeks ago about my new Tokina 11mm – 16mm ultra wide angle lens and the reason for it, a real estate photography / video / website job in North Carolina. My friend Robert, a fellow webmaster and website designer, introduced me to this job and within days we were in the back seat of a Ford F150 being driven from New York to North Carolina.

We went there without flinching, and when I say we worked nonstop for most of the trip I am not exaggerating. We went as far as skipping meals and dehydrating ourselves. Hard work indeed. Not the brightest of all methods but it was worth it. We got so much done.

We photographed and videoed 2 of the luxury villas at the luxury villa complex Bennet Landing and the model home for a nearby development called Nature’s Run. All of this in 2 days. The weather didn’t cooperate with us, and we were left scrambling outside when the rain subsided for the exterior shots. I was told there are about 20 days like this yearly. It was just some bad luck that we happened upon it.

Bennet Landing is right on the Neuse River, and is a high quality piece of Intracoastal real estate. The Intracoastal Waterway is synonymous for the Pamlico Sound and the Neuse River. The luxury villas they have built and are building will make fabulous summer homes, vacation homes, investments, or retirement homes in North Carolina. Taxes are low there, especially compared to New York, so the area makes a great snowbird location. New Bern is nearby and boasts one of the best retirement communities in the United States. There are a lot of good reasons to be excited about this place, and the owner enthusiastically told us about much of the area.

The second half of the project was creating the websites that our videos and websites support. Robert created the Bennett Landing main website using the Market America platform and I creates a site called North Carolina Real Estate using WordPress. Both sites are well done, and we are both proud of them.

One amazing part of our time there was watching the dolphin’s. Robert happened to be right on the dock when several pods of dolphins were feeding. Here is the video of that encounter. Just imagine being able to wake up daily to the dolphins.

Here are some photos of the Bennet Landing villas:

Tokina 11mm – 16mm ultra wide angle lens

Johnny Z — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:05:42 +0000

Sorry about the lack of time recently. I know I started two projects here, the 1 month Indonesia trip and the 1 week recently in New Hampshire. I recently became involved in another project that suits my talents very well. It is a real estate project that required photos, video, websites, and SEO. We had to begin right away and I spent every second of last weekend either traveling, eating, working, or sleeping while going to the locations in North Carolina.

One nice thing about the trip was I got a Tokina 11mm – 16mm ultra-wide angle lens to take nice, revealing photos of the inside of the villas/houses.

I took a load of phtoos and videos of the property, but the first shots I took were of a gorgeous Ford Shelby Cobra at a different location.

There will be more to come. Sooner I hope but this project has been such a whirlwind that I may not have much time for a while. Time will tell.